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This hobby takes a vast knowledge of well...a vast amount of things! From anemone to zooplankton, the vocabulary list alone is enough to teach in a college level seminar. Some of us are young enough for babysitters and some of us are old enough to have been apart of the revolutionary war, so we all have a completely different style of knowing the stuff we need to know per our individual system.
Do you have a journal of everything you've done? Do you make a thread that documents everything? Are you using apps? Do you just have amazing memory? Do you just keep asking other people every time you forget something? There is no wrong way to know things, I am just curious to how others do it. I have my own ways too.

I am freshly out of college and during the whole experience took notes that I rarely could use or even read. I was usually too bored and drew artwork rarer that write about it. Luckily I have a sponge brain that sucks in information. I can really talk someone's ear off about this stuff for hours. Like bubba talking about shrimp on forest gump. Lol. So what methods do you utilize?
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Honestly, I am just very interested in animals. My brain could care less to remember my sisters new phone number, but knowing all about animals is where it is at. I do use bookmarks and I also save a lot of photos with the names of the coral/fish. And books. I adore books.
 
My Favorites List is extremely long. My brain doesn't work very well anymore in the memory department. :tongue:
 
Boat loads of reading before I had a tank and no notes taken so lots in memory.

When I finally set up a tank I set up a local wiki server (TikiWiki) and kept a journal of pretty much everything that happened related to the tank, including the results from virtually every test I ever performed. (I've posted my test log before...search my topics.)

The journal was very helpful! And easy...

-Matt
 
Boat loads of reading before I had a tank and no notes taken so lots in memory.

When I finally set up a tank I set up a local wiki server (TikiWiki) and kept a journal of pretty much everything that happened related to the tank, including the results from virtually every test I ever performed. (I've posted my test log before...search my topics.)

The journal was very helpful! And easy...

-Matt

Never thought about slapping up a local wiki for myself. Nice idea, but I do keep a spreadsheet with my weekly test results. I have it configured to keep a graph of parms so its easier to see how stable things are over time.
 
my brain is kinda spongy, but not in a good absorbent way LOL

I bookmark and have a long favorites list, reading the info doesn't help me much until I do it myself, then stuff just kinda stays with me, I do sometimes forget small details but I try to always refresh my memory before doing anything that I've not done in a while, just to be sure...

just like dosing vodka, I did it with my tank and dropped my nitrates down to near zero but I can't remember the starting dosage or how long before my 'trates read low enough to just do the maintenance dosage, and right now I don't remember what my maintenance dosage is, I set it up with my dosing system a few years ago and haven't had to look at it since, I just add a new bottle of Vodka when it needs more.....I get some odd looks at the liquer store when I tell them I don't drink, it's for my aquarium too LOL
 
I got those looks from lugging jugs of water haha. They thought I was a camel or an indoor farmer of illegal crop. Of course. I had to explain. Reef not reef +er
 
Never thought about slapping up a local wiki for myself. Nice idea, but I do keep a spreadsheet with my weekly test results. I have it configured to keep a graph of parms so its easier to see how stable things are over time.

I used the form generator in TikiWiki to have a nice, efficient data entry screen for my test results. All stored in an online table for reference or further analysis like charting, also within TikiWiki. Awesome software. B-) I usually dumped to a spreadsheet if I was doing anything more extensive like that though.

-Matt
 
I have a pretty photographic memory. that said I do forget some details that I usually google. For instance, Last night I was posting to help someone with dipping corals. I know I had successfully dipped using a pesticide. I knwo i used 1 or 2ml per cup of tank water. COULD NOT REMEMBER THE BRAND. ugh. started to say ortho home pest control but caught myself thinking that was not correct. I googled that and nothing came up coral related. then I had to google "Insecticide coral dip" bayer came up and it was my AH-HA! moment.

I absorb a ton of stuff. brain is always going. I am mid 30's so I wasnt born yesterday, but still not shopping for absorbent undergarments.
 

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